Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
how do you know that having a game that comes down hard on cheaters wont bring even a larger group of people in? you dont. just like you cant say they would lose half their player base.
Because it fractures a large portion of the player base, effectively in some shape or form shunning a particular method of play that isn't necessarily detrimental to the experience of another individual. Be it with shunning parsing (unless used exclusively as a tool to harass), or similarly with banning certain plugins or third-party tools that if anything adds to the QoL experience, and should realistically be natively supported. Granted, I don't think it would impact the facets of gameplay or guidance that they're thinking of. People writing guides are already adept enough that they can do such simply by reading the tooltips with adequate spreadsheet knowledge.

That being said, there needs to be a distinction between something that is inherently toxic to the game community, fostering one, and something that is objectively detrimental, and more in the black and white zone of cheating, e.g. botting, and PvP hacks. With the latter being something that shouldn't be condoned, and arguably many in the former falling into the realm of potentially being QoL.